Meet the Writers

Here you find listings of the writers who are will appear at our 2025 festival. Click on any writer to see their full biography. The writers appear alphabetically.
Molly Twomey

Molly Twomey

Interviewer, Poetry

Molly Twomey’s debut collection, Raised Among Vultures, was published in 2022 by The Gallery Press and won the Southword Debut Collection…

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Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel

Translation

Saskia Vogel is a writer and translator from Swedish and German into English. She was awarded a Berlin Senate grant…

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Daniel Wade

Daniel Wade

Irish Writing, Nature, Performance, Poetry

Daniel Wade is a writer from Dublin now based in the West of Ireland. In 2017, his play The Collector…

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Colin Walsh

Colin Walsh

Debut, Fiction, Irish Writing, Novel

Colin Walsh’s short stories have won several awards including the RTE Francis MacManus Short Story Prize and the Hennessy Literary…

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Mark Ward

Mark Ward

Irish Writing, LGBTQIA+, Poetry

Mark Ward is the author of the collection Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023) as well as five chapbooks, the most recent…

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Sarah Webb

Sarah Webb

Children, Irish Writing, Professional Development

Sarah Webb is an award-winning Irish children’s author of over forty books, including her latest novel for children, The Weather…

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Mark Wickham

Mark Wickham

Children, Illustrator, West Cork

Mark Wickham is a designer and illustrator who lives by the sea with his family in West Cork. He has…

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Meet the Writers

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